The school band at St. Edmund Prep, Homecrest, celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a concert. As part of the celebration, alumni from the past 10 years returned to play with the band. Conductor and band teacher John Malazzo organized the event. There was a great variety for everyone. The pep band played “Louie, Louie,” LaBamba” […]
NEW YORK (CNS) — New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan is scheduled to offer closing prayers at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in the coming days. Cardinal Dolan, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, accepted an invitation from the Democratic convention organizers to deliver the benediction on the last night […]
by Father Thomas Catania THE RECIPE CAME straight out of Julia Child; every last detail of it was followed meticulously, but here on the table, what should have been a mouthwatering sole a la Florentine bears an uncanny resemblance to a fish tank whose inhabitants and warranty have both expired in the past 24 hours. It wasn’t […]
Dear Dr. Garner, I am a fit 43-year-old woman. I exercise five days a week, am not overweight and have had no medical problems until about three months ago. It started when I was grocery shopping. My heart started racing and I couldn’t catch my breath. I could feel the pounding of my heart so […]
by Father Robert Lauder IT IS ALWAYS a pleasant experience when you think that you have some insight and then discover that someone has expressed that insight in print. The discovery that your insight has been expressed by someone in something that has been published is like a stamp of approval. This was my experience when I […]
Let’s see. So Cardinal Dolan decides to go to the Al Smith dinner and sit with invitees Messrs. Obama and Romney. He is condemned, mostly from the right, for compromising the credibility of what he preaches by being at table with his most prominent adversary. He also accepts an invitation to pray at the Republican […]
As students prepare to arrive back in their classrooms, I hope that teachers are planning a lesson on the historical significance of Neil Armstrong, who died this past week. The first man to walk on a celestial body, Armstrong’s name is right up there in the history books with Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus. Sometimes, […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, On Sept. 3, we celebrate the feast day of St. Gregory the Great. He was given this title because of his pivotal ministry at a time of monumental transition in the Church and of the world. Historians view him as one of the prime architects of the […]
by Steven Kent Waiting for “the recovery” as something that is all but inevitable may be little more than misplaced hope. “This time it is different” was the much scorned optimistic line used by those who tried to deny historic economic cycles when touting their latest scheme, be it the medieval Holland tulip bulb craze […]
